Improvement in coffee-pots



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Coffee-Pots.

Patented Feb. 4,1873.

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Attorneys.

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AM. PHOTO-UTHOSRAPHIC c0. NHOSBQRNE'sPRocESSJ UNITED STATES BAYLESSGRIGSBY AND THOMAS e. BRASELTON, OF PRINo'EroN, INDIANA.

PATENT CFFIGE.

IMPROVEMENT lN COFFEE-POTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,544, dated February4, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, BAYLEss GRIGSBY and THOMAs 0. BRASELTON, ofPrinceton, in the county of Gibson and in the State of Indiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in OoEeePots; and do herebyto which our invention appertains to make and use the same, we will nowproceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to theannexed drawing, in whicha Figure l is a vertical section of a coffee-p0with our attachment within the same. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of theattachment, and Fig. 3 is a section through a part of the same. Arepresents a circular box, which is open at the bottom and rests withthe open end down on the bottom of a coffee-pot. From the center of thisbox A rises a tube, B, which passes through and has attached to itanother circular box, (3. The bottom and top or lid of this box 0 areperforated, as shown, and the ground coffee is to be placed in said boxwhile being boiled. The water is forced up through the pipe B, the upperend of which is closed and perforated around, so that the water andsteam are forced through, and, passing down through the box 0, extractthe strength from the coffee. The water passes back into the lower box Athrough a valve, a, arranged in the top thereof for that purpose, asshown in Fig. 3. On the upper end of the pipe B is a spiral spring, b,to hold the attachment in its place and prevent it from rising too highin the coffee-pot when the lid is closed down. On the upper end of thepipe is also a cap, I), attached, which is concave on its under side,and is for the purpose of conducting the water which flows through theupright tube B into the box 0 containing the ground coffee and preventthe water from striking the sides of the coffee-pot.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a coffee-pot, of the bottomless box A with valvea, tube B closed and perforated at its upper part, cap 1D, spring I),and the box 0 with perforated top and bottom, all constructed and usedsubstantially as set forth.

in testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto .set our handsthis 6th day of December, 1872.

'BAYLESS GBIGSBY.

THOMAS C. BRASELTON. Witnesses JAs. W. MUSGROVE, LEWIS PAGE.

